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Re: L3P v1.3 for Mac OSX
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Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:42:42 GMT
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In article <H6ossH.CCo@lugnet.com>,
"James Reynolds" <james@scl.utah.edu> wrote:
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> > I guess I could create a script that adds the text file type and then
> > send the file to POV-Ray.
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> Cool, could you post it when you get it working?
If, IF I get it working. I have no idea what I am doing most of the
time, but sometimes get it to work anyway. With OS 9 I could create a
drag-and-drop capable scriptlet/applet, but with OS X I cannot figure it
out :(
> > I find it very annoying that Apple is eliminating the whole file type
> > creator thing. It worked so well (much better the extensions). I am glad
> > that all of the applications that I have purchased still add type and
> > creator info to the file.
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> It isn't that Apple is getting rid of it, it is that Darwin, the Unix part
> of Mac OS X doesn't deal with creator/file types. I do alot with the
> terminal, and all the unix tools do the same thing, create files with no
> creator/file types. Until Lars customizes it for Mac OS X, L3P pretty much
> falls into the catigory of a unix tool.
It seems that there are depending on how you count them, there are three
or four kinds of programs that run on OS X.
Classic, OS X Carbon, Cocoa, Unix X11, and Unix Tools. I understand that
most unix/X11 applications wouldn't do the whole type/creator thing, but
it is annoying that some of the Cocoa (Carbon apps too?) change their
creator if you change their extension. Very crappy behavior.
> Apple is really interesting. It is 2 companies really, a bunch of Unix
> geeks from NeXT, and the old Apple employees. See this movie "The future of
> Mac OS 9", by Keith Stattenfield, former Mac OS 9.x Technical Lead at Apple:
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> http://homepage.mac.com/stattenf/FutureOfMacOS9/
> Mirror:
> http://apple.doit.wisc.edu/media/futureofmacos9.mov
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> James
So, I guess OS 9 is dead? Long live OS 9.
Chris
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| (...) Don't worry, neither do I. ;-) (...) The OS 9 script should compile and work on OS X too. I haven't been paying attention to AppleScript changes for OS X since May, but back then the scripts pretty much did the same thing they did in OS 9. (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| (...) I wondered that too. I would think that it wouldn't matter. If it tried to open a binary file, I don't think it would be any worse than openning a SimpleText or some other "TEXT" file. POV-Ray still has to check the file for proper POV-Ray (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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